The US president is reportedly not interested in informal diplomatic contact with China on trade
US President Donald Trump has stifled almost every channel of diplomatic outreach with China, aiming to deal directly with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, as the trade war between the two superpowers escalates, Politico has reported citing anonymous sources.
Ahah. All the claims of China not wanting to negotiate proven false yet again. They’ve been reaching out through the usual channels but Trump isn’t interested.
The US president is adamant about direct negotiations with Xi, and has stifled other diplomatic avenues, Politico wrote on Saturday, citing anonymous former US State Department officials and an industry official.
Trump has not authorized White House delegates to engage with Beijing, the outlet cited its sources as saying. In addition, the Senate has not confirmed a US ambassador to China, Trump has not nominated an official to lead a diplomatic effort, and Washington has thus far not reached out to the Chinese embassy, Politico reported.
“The backchannels don’t work because President Trump doesn’t want them to,” […]
“Trump wants to deal directly with President Xi in the same way he has with Putin,” he said.
Washington is waiting for Beijing to reach out and call first, CNN wrote earlier this month, citing anonymous officials.
Trump doesn’t want to flinch first because of saving face. Xi understandably doesn’t want to deal with this. Trump sees himself as some incredible negotiator and I think has an innate admiration for people he sees as “strongmen” according to western propaganda hence his desires to get directly together with Putin and Xi to act tough and feel tough standing up to them. He thinks he can talk “Mano a Mano” or man to man and get the best deal.
This bodes badly for any resolution to this obviously as Trump is going to keep pushing for a sit-down with Xi.
Trump lives in the world where the “big powerful CEOs” of companies meet and decide the fate of everything while everyone else is a meaningless peasant to be looked down on.
This seems to be the exact opposite of how the CPC runs things. It shows complete disrespect for the many delegates and members that work alongside Xi. Now I can’t say what Xi might be thinking, but if I were in such a position I would be thinking "If you disrespect my comrades then you disrespect me. "
Fuck they got to talk about? The weather?
Like all forms of relationships or interactions, the only way to best a narcissist is to not engage. They are better versed in depravity and bish none of us have enough time on earth to be giving charity to those freaks
“mano a mano” means “hand to hand”. I think Xi could take him easily
He is very tall
